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Bible: Together — root, trunk and branch

Last fall I grafted a half dozen varieties of apples onto my apple tree. I’m a poor and inexperienced grafter, so not surprisingly only a

Brad Roth

May 13, 2019

Bible: Mountains below the surface

One thing I love about Kansas is the mountains. Oh, we have them all right. They’re just buried under 600 feet of Harney Silt Loam.

Brad Roth

April 29, 2019

Bible: Want proof of the resurrection?

Oh, for a video camera trained on the tomb on that original Easter Sunday! How perfect it would be to witness the grinding of the

Brad Roth

April 15, 2019

Bible: What’s your alabaster jar?

While the chief priests and elders schemed to kill Jesus, a woman entered Simon the leper’s house and blessed him with costly perfume. “Why this

Brad Roth

April 1, 2019

Bible: To cure, cleanse, exorcise — and resurrect

A Peruvian pastor friend tells the story of leading a group of young evangelists out to some remote villages along the sinuous mountain roads of

Brad Roth

March 18, 2019

Bible: You’ve already been called home

When the State of Illinois decided to expand I-74 just north of our family farmstead in a multiyear spate of civil engineering angioplasty, my father

Brad Roth

March 4, 2019

Bible: Because Jesus is true

Sometimes I talk to my seatmates on the plane. Sometimes I don’t. But when the young woman next to me had a panic attack brought

Brad Roth

February 18, 2019

Bible: The past that guides the future

We don’t often have the chance to witness mass religious festivals of a kind seen regularly in some parts of the world. They are unforgettable:

Jonathan Larson

February 4, 2019

Bible: God in the fortress — or the slum

A famous impressionist artist once said, “I know what I’m looking at, but what am I seeing?” This inviting question leads to the heart of

Jonathan Larson

January 21, 2019

Bible: Threatened with the Resurrection

The late Vincent Harding, an African-American scholar and civil rights activist with Mennonite connections, recounted a visit to Guatemala to witness the turmoil and suffering

Jonathan Larson

January 7, 2019

Bible: The peril of being a winner

From his vantage point at the dawn of the second century, the author of James casts an eye across the churchscape of his time, taking

Jonathan Larson

December 17, 2018

Bible column: An all-in kind of love

Crack the first windows of your family Advent calendar and you will soon enough hear Mary and Zachariah and the angels in lyric worship and

Jonathan Larson

December 3, 2018

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